Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 170
and the spirit in which only the work could beaccomplished. * The victors in the fight of Evesham—with that savagevindictive spirit of the old Pagan Norsemen which lived stillin the children of the Norman and the Anglo-Saxon, andwhich was only veiled with the coat-armour of… … THE VANISHED ABBEY. 157 to the Evesham Abbey monks, who buried him before thehigh altar of their noble church. The head and hands, crueltrophies of the bloody victory, were sent to Lady Mortimer,his relentless foe, at Wigmore. Very soon legends of their dead champion began to bewoven round the…
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